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Looking for a Hong Kong KVM/Xen VPS Provider on the SoftLayer network.

VirtualSmileVirtualSmile Member
edited July 2018 in Help

Hello everyone!

I'm new to the forums but I've always been browsing on and off. I am currently looking for a HK KVM/Xen VPS provider that is on the SoftLayer network. My budget is within $15.. but am possibly willing to push for $20!

I am using it to route game traffic through to Taiwan. SoftLayer gives my mates and I very good latency between us and the game server.. around 100ms. We are already using HostHatch and HostUS, but they only offer OpenVZ virtualization and the inability to modify the kernel is slightly impacting our experience. That, on top of the fact that HostUS is currently very unstable for me.. Latency spikes every 5-10 seconds of triple the latency.

We've already browsed around and found VPSNine, who was offering it for 20$ a month (but with only 128mb of ram?!) and of course IBM Cloud, who were offering it for 25-28$ a month. Unfortunately, that is very much out of our budget ): Someone also mentioned LeaseWeb, who we had a Singapore VPS with, but I can't find the option under their VPS page to select Hong Kong as the server location.

Thanks everyone!

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  • randvegetarandvegeta Member, Host Rep

    Softlayer is kindof expensive. Not sure how many LET folk use them. But 100ms from HK to TW seems rather high.

    Should be doable in less than 50ms for most routes.

  • RedDotRedDot Member
    edited July 2018

    How much bandwidth are you looking for?
    If you don't know, what game is this?

    If you're not limited just to SoftLayer, you might want to look into starrydns.

    https://my.starrydns.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=3

    http://hk4.lg.starrydns.com/

    If you're know how to read Chinese, there are many different forums that regularly post deals for servers, usually in Hong Kong.
    I.e. http://servercat.me

    Lastly, if you're just looking for a gaming VPN, there's http://mudfish.net. They provide many, many nodes in SE Asia.

  • dangduc1dangduc1 Member

    I also need to rent a VPS in HongKong. Need a VPS service provider, too. Thanks.

  • VirtualSmileVirtualSmile Member
    edited July 2018

    @randvegeta said:
    Softlayer is kindof expensive. Not sure how many LET folk use them. But 100ms from HK to TW seems rather high.

    Should be doable in less than 50ms for most routes.

    Hello! 100ms is from Us (Perth) to Taiwan. Normally Hong Kong to the Game Server (in TW) is ~15ms.

    @RedDot said:
    How much bandwidth are you looking for?
    If you don't know, what game is this?

    If you're not limited just to SoftLayer, you might want to look into starrydns.

    https://my.starrydns.com/cart.php?a=confproduct&i=3

    http://hk4.lg.starrydns.com/

    If you're know how to read Chinese, there are many different forums that regularly post deals for servers, usually in Hong Kong.
    I.e. http://servercat.me

    Lastly, if you're just looking for a gaming VPN, there's http://mudfish.net. They provide many, many nodes in SE Asia.

    Not too much, since it'll only be for me and a few friends. At least 100GB to be safe though.

    Unfortunately I am just limited to SoftLayer. Every other network nets me anywhere from 150ms to 300ms alone just to Hong Kong (+ 15ms to Game Server). The game is Blade and Soul.

    I've used Mudfish! Unfortunately since they still haven't fixed their fast connect mode for advanced mode (chaining) the performance of it is very bad.

  • randvegetarandvegeta Member, Host Rep

    Can you provide a tracer route to softlayer? There should be several options with low latency to Perth.

  • VirtualSmileVirtualSmile Member
    edited July 2018

    @randvegeta said:
    Can you provide a tracer route to softlayer? There should be several options with low latency to Perth.

    Of course! Here you go. This is to an IP given here: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/infrastructure/hardware-firewall-dedicated/ips.html

    Tracing route to 1.8a.5177.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com [119.81.138.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  R7000 [192.168.1.1]
  2     4 ms     2 ms     2 ms  172.18.216.104
  3     5 ms     4 ms     4 ms  172.18.73.181
  4     3 ms     4 ms     4 ms  bundle-ether4.pie-edge902.perth.telstra.net [203.50.112.52]
  5     5 ms     7 ms     8 ms  bundle-ether7.pie-core1.perth.telstra.net [203.50.6.188]
  6     4 ms     4 ms     4 ms  gigabitethernet0-7-0-0.pthp-core01.perth.net.reach.com [203.50.13.246]
  7    54 ms    51 ms    52 ms  i-0-1-1-0.sgpl-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.84.143.2]
  8    99 ms   100 ms   100 ms  i-15012.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net [202.84.140.181]
  9    98 ms    98 ms    98 ms  i-93.istt04.telstraglobal.net [202.84.224.190]
 10    53 ms    51 ms    50 ms  -peer.istt04.pr.telstraglobal.net [202.126.128.22]
 11    53 ms    54 ms    53 ms  ae6.cbs02.eq01.sng02.networklayer.com [169.45.19.178]
 12    81 ms    86 ms    82 ms  ae0.cbs02.pn01.hkg01.networklayer.com [169.45.19.188]
 13    81 ms    84 ms    82 ms  db.13.2da9.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com [169.45.19.219]
 14    81 ms    84 ms    82 ms  1.8a.5177.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com [119.81.138.1]

Trace complete.

    Here is one to my HostUS server:

    Tracing route to xx.xx.xx.xx over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  R7000 [192.168.1.1]
  2     2 ms     2 ms     4 ms  172.18.216.104
  3     5 ms     5 ms     4 ms  172.18.73.181
  4     5 ms     4 ms     3 ms  bundle-ether4.pie-edge902.perth.telstra.net [203.50.112.52]
  5     4 ms     3 ms     7 ms  bundle-ether7.pie-core1.perth.telstra.net [203.50.6.188]
  6     4 ms     4 ms     4 ms  gigabitethernet0-7-0-0.pthp-core01.perth.net.reach.com [203.50.13.246]
  7    55 ms    56 ms    53 ms  i-0-1-1-0.sgpl-core01.bx.telstraglobal.net [202.84.143.2]
  8   101 ms   100 ms   100 ms  i-15012.sgpl-core02.telstraglobal.net [202.84.140.181]
  9   100 ms    99 ms   100 ms  i-93.istt04.telstraglobal.net [202.84.224.190]
 10    51 ms    51 ms    51 ms  -peer.istt04.pr.telstraglobal.net [202.126.128.22]
 11    55 ms    53 ms     *     ae6.cbs02.eq01.sng02.networklayer.com [169.45.19.178]
 12     *       85 ms    81 ms  ae0.cbs02.pn01.hkg01.networklayer.com [169.45.19.188]
 13    81 ms    81 ms    80 ms  db.13.2da9.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com [169.45.19.219]
 14    83 ms    83 ms    82 ms  po3.fcr01.hkg02.networklayer.com [119.81.138.139]
 15     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 16    83 ms    83 ms    81 ms  xx.xx.xx.xx

Trace complete.

    If it matters I'm with Telstra. I believe most of my mates are with iiNet. We both get put on SWM3 routing to get to Asia/SG, whilst my other friends with Internode and TPG are on another route that gives them good latency to server providers like Alibaba Cloud and OVH.

  • ehhthingehhthing Member
    edited July 2018

    You might want to also look into LayerStack, they have peering with Telstra.

    You can find some test IPs here: https://www.layerstack.com/speed-test

    And you can find their pricing scheme here: https://www.layerstack.com/pricing-cloud-servers (they price based on how long you pre-order for).

  • VirtualSmileVirtualSmile Member

    @ehhthing said:
    You might want to also look into LayerStack, they have peering with Telstra.

    You can find some test IPs here: https://www.layerstack.com/speed-test

    And you can find their pricing scheme here: https://www.layerstack.com/pricing-cloud-servers (they price based on how long you pre-order for).
    @ehhthing said:
    You might want to also look into LayerStack, they have peering with Telstra.

    You can find some test IPs here: https://www.layerstack.com/speed-test

    And you can find their pricing scheme here: https://www.layerstack.com/pricing-cloud-servers (they price based on how long you pre-order for).

    Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately I get ~127ms average to their Hong Kong test IP's alone ): That's almost a solid 50ms above normal. It seems like SoftLayer and Microsoft Azure are the only two that I have really good routing/peering with. Azure is really inconsistent though.. some days it will be 80ms to their HK datacenter, other days it'll be 90ms.

  • qpsqps Member, Host Rep
    edited July 2018

    Oops, didn't read through the OP fully before posting.

  • randvegetarandvegeta Member, Host Rep

    Did you ever find a solution?

  • VirtualSmileVirtualSmile Member

    @randvegeta said:
    Did you ever find a solution?

    Unfortunately not yet. I may end up going with a provider like IBM Cloud just to test it out for a month. It's awfully expensive and my mates and I won't be able to maintain it though.. but right now we're having too many issues with OpenVZ.

  • randvegetarandvegeta Member, Host Rep

    Can you pm me your IP so I can check the latency from my network?

  • VirtualSmileVirtualSmile Member

    @randvegeta said:
    Can you pm me your IP so I can check the latency from my network?

    Sent!

  • randvegetarandvegeta Member, Host Rep

    Interesting. To Telstra pop in HK is like 2ms from our DC. Via Telstra to AU is 128ms. Crazy that other routes are better than Telstra's....

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